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Meanwhile in Ontario the egg-and-tomato throwers rolled up a mighty victory for "Mitch" Hepburn and even rock-ribbed "Tory Toronto" split to make his Liberal victory complete. Conservatives in the Ontario Legislature dropped from 84 seats to 17 while Liberals who had had 15 seats were romping home with 65. Rejoicing at the failure of any third party to make an effective score, Quebec's sly old French-Canadian boss, grey-whiskered Liberal Premier Taschereau exclaimed: "In two provinces separated by vast space . . . results showed that new or third parties have no appeal. . . . My hearty congratulations...
Farmers in eastern Illinois quit working their powdery fields. Around Rock Island the oat crop was conceded to be destroyed and cattle were let in to munch on what was left. Five hundred farmers in three Wisconsin counties rounded up 26,000 head of half starved cattle, loaded them on stock cars, shipped them north to rented fields in the Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago...
...people. That would come later. The great summer drought of 1930 did not deliver its full impact of human misery until the following autumn and winter. Recalling the volunteer assistance which South Dakota gave Arkansas in those terrible times, Editor W. T. Sitlington of the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat called upon the farmers of his State to repay a "mercy debt." Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation and to show that they never forget a friend." Last week...
...join. In Louisville, the League of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations favored it. The Living Church (Episcopal) printed the pledge for its readers to sign. The Detroit Council of Churches (250,000 Protestants) has urged ministers to promote it. Besides Catholic action in such cities as Mobile, Rochester, Little Rock. St. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans and Spokane, interdenominational action has been taken in Denver, Galveston and San Francisco...
...jubilee-the fourth annual Cotton Carnival.* Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans had had their days, would have them again. But last week was Memphis's and on her was every eye in Dixie. Memphis, where De Soto built his river barges 79 years before anybody heard of Plymouth Rock. Memphis, the town that Andrew Jackson could have named after himself, but decided to stamp with the Greek derivation of an Egyptian word that meant "good abode." Memphis, where in 1865 1,450 Union prisoners were blown to bits with the steamboat Sultana in a maritime disaster surpassed only...